And the poverty has as much of a significant effect upon the educational performance and upon the ability of a poor school district already to deliver an equal educational opportunity.

NPR: De Facto School Segregation Growing, Study Says

"We are positioning ourselves as a reasonable alternative with regard to cost to independent schools, which can be substantially more money, and we feel we can provide a quality educational program within the district, " Mr. Stark said.

WSJ: Rye Brook Markets the $20,000 Public School

What the union in my district tries to fight against is bad educational policy.

FORBES: Against Barriers to a New Educational Paradigm

Tulane University President, Scott Cowan, the Head of the Bring New Orleans Back Education Committee, says most of the spending and educational decisions would be made not by a district superintendent, but by school principals.

NPR: New Orleans Releases Plan for City's Schools

As the standards movement gained strength in the early 1990s, however, educational and political leaders at the state, district, and even school levels began to show greater interest in how other countries defined academic quality and how U.S. students fared in relation to their peers in other nations.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

To this end, DAE works in close cooperation with the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED), Regional Literacy Officers (RLOs) and District Literacy Organisers (DLOs).

UNESCO: National Literacy Programme in Namibia